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kept separate, and can be easily traced by the complete index which will follow.

PEDIGREES.

To obviate the necessity of searching for pedigrees, as in many genealogies I have adopted the method of giving a full pedigree to every head of a family (or brotherhood of families.

ABBREVIATIONS.

The usual abbreviations are employed in this work as b. for born, m. for married, d. for died, and others which are easily understood.

ORIGIN OF THE NAME HALL.

The surname Hall is derived from at least three sources.

1. The Norwegian word for flint is hallr, its final letter is silent, and only indicates the nominative ease. The word also signified a hero, and on this account the Norwegians often gave it as a name to their children, and it finally became a surname. The old Norse hallr, hals and the Anglo-Saxon haele, haletta, signify the same, a hero.

The surname Hawes has the same derivation as hall.

Hallett and Henry are diminutives of the same.

Hallse means; the son Henry.

The Norwegians settled quite extensively in Scotland, and hence. the Scotch Halls

2. The English Manor House is another source of the name of Hall.

In Medieval documents the Manor House is called "Alle, "Halle, "De Aula and "Del Hall."

The principal apartment was the hall, which was used as a petty court of justice, as well as the scene of entertainment, hence the tenant or chief servitor acquired the surname De Aula or Del Hall which was retained by his eldest son.

3. The word in Welsh for salt is hall, and a worker in salt is haller, and a dwelling near salt works or on low marshy ground near the sea is halham, halla or halle, hence the origin of the